McGill University

---
aid: mcgill
name: McGill University
description: >-
  McGill University is a public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada,
  ranked #64 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public, machine-readable
  developer footprint is centered on research-data infrastructure rather than a
  unified developer portal: the McGill University Dataverse is published through the
  Borealis (Scholars Portal) Dataverse platform, which exposes the full Dataverse
  Native and Search REST APIs over the McGill collection. Identity is federated
  through a Shibboleth SAML single sign-on service. Most other institutional systems
  (course catalogue, Minerva/Banner registration, library discovery) are gated behind
  authentication or web UIs and do not publish open, documented public APIs.
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/mcgill/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research Data
  - Open Data
  - Canada
  - Quebec
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
properties:
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/mcgill-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-json-ld
    url: json-ld/mcgill-context.jsonld
  - type: x-rules
    url: rules/mcgill-rules.yml
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: mcgill:dataverse-native
    name: McGill University Dataverse (Borealis) - Native API
    description: >-
      Dataverse Native REST API serving the McGill University Dataverse research-data
      repository, hosted on the Borealis (Scholars Portal) Dataverse platform. Provides
      programmatic access to the McGill collection, datasets, files, and metadata.
      Verified live: GET /api/dataverses/mcgill returns the McGill collection record
      as JSON.
    humanURL: https://borealisdata.ca/guides/en/latest/api/native-api.html
    baseURL: https://borealisdata.ca/api
    tags: [ Research Data, Open Data, Dataverse, Repository, Metadata ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://borealisdata.ca/guides/en/latest/api/native-api.html
      - type: Website
        url: https://borealisdata.ca/dataverse/mcgill
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/mcgill-dataverse-native.yaml
      - type: x-json-schema
        url: json-schema/mcgill-dataverse-schema.json
      - type: x-example
        url: examples/mcgill-get-dataverse-example.json
  - aid: mcgill:dataverse-search
    name: McGill University Dataverse (Borealis) - Search API
    description: >-
      Dataverse Search REST API for discovering Dataverse collections, datasets, and
      files within the Borealis platform that hosts the McGill University Dataverse.
      Supports keyword, faceted, and geospatial search. Verified live: GET /api/search
      returns JSON results.
    humanURL: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/api/search.html
    baseURL: https://borealisdata.ca/api/search
    tags: [ Research Data, Search, Open Data, Dataverse, Discovery ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/api/search.html
      - type: Website
        url: https://borealisdata.ca/dataverse/mcgill
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/mcgill-dataverse-search.yaml
      - type: x-json-schema
        url: json-schema/mcgill-search-item-schema.json
      - type: x-example
        url: examples/mcgill-search-example.json
  - aid: mcgill:shibboleth-sso
    name: McGill Shibboleth SAML Single Sign-On
    description: >-
      McGill University Authentication Service, a Shibboleth Identity Provider offering
      SAML 2.0 federated single sign-on for McGill web applications and federation
      partners. This is an identity/SSO endpoint, not an open data API. Verified live:
      the IdP host responds (HTTP 200).
    humanURL: https://shibboleth.mcgill.ca/
    tags: [ Identity, Authentication, SAML, SSO, Shibboleth ]
    properties:
      - type: Authentication
        url: https://shibboleth.mcgill.ca/
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.mcgill.ca/
  - type: Twitter
    url: https://twitter.com/mcgillu
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/mcgill-university/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://shibboleth.mcgill.ca/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/mcgill-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/mcgill-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/mcgill-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]